Spiritual Focus on Books June 13, 2011 Issue

What Good is God?

Kim Shippey, Senior Writer

What Good is God? 
In Search of a Faith that Matters  
Philip Yancey 
FaithWords, New York, 2010 
287 pages

Philip Yancey identifies himself as a journalist by profession, one who is committed through his writing and public speaking to explore his Christian faith thoughtfully and honestly. His latest book, What Good is God? In Search of a Faith that Matters, is a report on his travels over the past few years to several countries in search of answers. He visited China, India, South Africa, England, the Middle East, and several parts of the United States, including the Virginia Tech campus shortly after the shooting there in April 2007. 

It was in front of 1,100 still bewildered, grieving young people in a student center on campus that Yancey delivered a deeply moving, healing address: “Grief proves love,” he said. “Cling to the hope that nothing that happens, not even this terrible tragedy, is irredeemable. We serve a God who has vowed to make all things new. . . . True healing takes place in community. . . . May you know the God of all comfort, and let that transforming knowledge overflow to others.”

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